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Fixed my squeeky clutch.
OK, I got rid of my squeak without taking anything apart. I was looking to take the thing apart to get to it but it looked like way too much for the time that I had. Let me know if yall think it was a little too risky.
I traced the sound and could see the general area under the hood. There was a rubber boot to the left of the engine that covered what I think is the release fork (looking from the front of the car). I moved that rubber boot by simply squeezing it and sliding it down to the clutch release cylinder. When my wife would push the clutch in, that "fork" would move to the left and when she would release, it would move back to the right. It squeeked every time. I took a grease gun that has a hose attached to it and shoved the hose into that compartment as straight and as deep as I could. I moved it around a bit and would pump the gun to give that vecinity some grease. The problem was that I couldn't see where the hell it was greasing so I was pretty much shooting in the dark. I pumped it a total of about 10 times....maybe less, but I made sure to not shoot it up too much cuz I was scared of greasing up something that didn't need it. It still squeeked that day but I drove it the following day and by the end of the day the squeek had stopped.
I guess the grease heated up and moved around, eventually moving into the area that was making noise. It was risky but the noise was bugging me so much I had to try something, nahmean.
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